Without a Clue - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[willard]

The Charity World Premiere Benefit Screening of this movie was held on October 20, 1988 at the Directors Guild in Hollywood, California, with proceeds to benefit the Kira Foundation. The event was announced in the October 19, 1988 edition of "The Hollywood Reporter".

[frances]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not billed in the credits for characters for this movie, but he did receive a joke apology in the closing titles.

[tamara]

Debut produced theatrical movie screenplay of television writers Gary Murphy and Larry Strawther.

[frederick]

This movie debuted in the same year as a 1988 television movie version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Peter Cook (Greenhough) played Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978).

[jessie]

The only theatrical movie penned by screenwriters Gary Murphy and Larry Strawther.

[lena]

It is little known that Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a professional football (soccer) player. He played in goal for Portsmouth Football Club.

[morris]

Norman Greenhough (Peter Cook) was inspired by the real-life editor of The Strand Magazine, Herbert Greenhough Smith. In real life, he published Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine.

[jesse]

Composer Henry Mancini had recently composed the music for another Sherlock Holmes movie, which had been the Disney animated movie, The Great Mouse Detective (1986).

[violet]

Apparently, during principal photography, cast and crew all stayed at "The Keswick Hotel", which is now known as the "Keswick Country House Hotel".

[tamara]

Pat Keen's final appearance as the Sherlock Holmes franchise character of Mrs. Hudson. She had previously portrayed the character in four episodes of the television series The Baker Street Boys (1983).

[jamie]

Sir Ben Kingsley and Sir Michael Caine have won Academy Awards. Kingsley won the Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar for Gandhi (1982), while Caine has won two Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscars, for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and The Cider House Rules (1999).

[darrell]

The concept of "Sherlock Holmes" actually being a hired actor playing a role, hired by John Watson, would later be re-used in the BBC version of "Sherlock", but in that version, in one episode, the "real" James Moriarty would claim that he was an actor playing a character "Jim Moriarty", hired by Sherlock Holmes.

[jesus]

The "Bat" and "Lady Elizabeth" were provided to the production by the Windermere Steamboat Museum according to the closing credits.

[sandra]

Look closely for the distinct window shapes, and the same location used as the burnt-out paper mill, would also re-appear at the end of the film as the burning building(s) "beside" the burning theatre. It appears to have actually been an existing real derelict building, probably somewhere in the area of the dockside location sites.

[wesley]

One of two productions in which Lysette Anthony and Sir Michael Caine appeared, which were released in 1988, with the other title being the mini-series Jack the Ripper (1988). Both productions were set in Victorian England.

[lena]

Sir Ben Kingsley has worked with two other Dr. Watsons: Michael Hordern in Gandhi (1982), and Jude Law in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).